Version 0.11.1

Now announcing Filmulator version 0.11.1!

Filmulate

• White balance can be sampled from a spot on the image. it will be remembered for that camera until overwritten or the program is closed. You can apply those saved white balance parameters to other photos taken by the same model of camera. In addition, you can also save manually chosen white balance parameters.
• Filmulator now indicates more clearly that a photo has been saved by showing a brief notification over the image view.
• Saving images on NFS network shares no longer crashes Filmulator.
• EXIF data for ISO and shutter speed is now written correctly to TIFF files.
• The lens correction dropdown tooltip now gets properly translated.
• The minimum crop area is set to 20 pixels on a side to prevent crashes.
• The escape key now cancels the lens selection box.

Import

• It is now possible to import from UNC file paths on Windows (those without a drive letter).
• It is now possible to import in place from a directory containing "DCIM". You do have to override the warning to do so, however.

General

• After updating Lensfun, the user is now prompted to restart Filmulator.
• Now with Portuguese translations, thanks to Juliano Serra.
• When using a raw file as an argument to launch Filmulator, it now opens directly to the Filmulate tab with that image selected.
• Windows builds should now correctly handle non-ASCII characters.
• Cryptographic signatures are now provided for verifying downloads. Download the version you want and the corresponding .sig file, then run gpg --verify [filename].sig [filename].

Builds are available for Linux and Windows, but still no MacOS builds are available at this time. Please get in touch if you can help set up CI for MacOS builds.

Version 0.11.0

Now announcing Filmulator version 0.11.0!

Filmulate

• Filmulator now properly handles cameras where whitepoint varies according to the set ISO. To benefit from this, go to the Settings tab and tell Filmulator to download the latest camera constants.
• The auto CA correction now loads properly for manual lenses on selecting an image.
• Reduce Memory Usage now works correctly when quick preview is on.

Import

• The file selection for import no longer needs the text box cleared in between uses.
• Files that match the name filters but cannot be processed (weird DNGs especially) are now properly ignored when importing.

Organize

• The Organize view now defaults to the current day upon opening.
• When on the Organize tab, pressing left/right switches the currently selected day, and holding shift will let you select multiple days.

Queue

• Double-clicking on an image in the queue now brings you directly to the Filmulate tab if you weren't already there.
• When an image is right-clicked, the rating shortcuts apply to that image instead of the image currently open for editing.

General

• ARM AArch64 builds are now possible, but no premade builds are available at this time.
• The version number can now be seen at the bottom right corner of the Settings tab.

Builds are available for Linux and Windows, but still no MacOS builds are available at this time. Please get in touch if you can help set up CI for MacOS builds.

Version 0.10.2

This is a relatively small update to Filmulator that may have a larger impact.

Filmulation

• Filmulator will now preload the next image in your "direction of travel" in the queue, for faster loading. This makes culling faster, for example. It also remembers the last image you had selected, so you can quickly switch back and forth between non-consecutive images.

Organize

• The rating filter sliders now display X instead of -1.

General

• TIFF metadata is handled more gracefully, so the output no longer crashes Photoshop.

Version 0.10.1

This is a bugfix release.

Version 0.10.0 was discovered to have a bug when initializing the database for first-time users, breaking all image processing. If this happened to you, delete your database, which on Linux is ~/.local/share/filmulator/filmulatorDB and on Windows is C:\Users\<USER>\AppData\Local\filmulator\filmulatordb. Then run version 0.10.1.

Version 0.10.0

Now announcing Filmulator version 0.10.0!

The following are the changes since version 0.9.1:

Processing

• New feature: leveling. Press the new button (or L) to initiate leveling. Select a rotation point for the guide indicators, and then drag about it to rotate. When the cursor is near the guide point, a circle will appear indicating that you can drag it around. Filmulator will remember where you put the rotation point, making it easier to finely adjust the level. Press shift-L or double-click the right mouse button to reset the leveling to zero.
• The 90 degree rotation buttons are now disabled when image isn't fully loaded, also when cropping or leveling.
• When you set the crop area to the full image, it now resets the database to think that it hasn't been cropped at all, so changing the rotation by 90 degrees no longer cuts off the image to maintain aspect ratio if you've decided you don't want to crop the image.

Import

• Make preset buttons for common import scenarios

Organize

• Changed "count" to "photos" in the tooltip for the date histogram

Queue

• Pressing the up or down arrow keys lets you increment the current image's rating up or down by one for one-handed culling.

General

• Add UI hints explaining how to use the application for new users.
• Add shortcut labels to tooltips for buttons

Builds are available for Linux and Windows, but still no MacOS builds are available at this time. Please get in touch if you can help set up CI for MacOS builds.

Version 0.9.1

In trying to keep releases more frequent, here's Filmulator version 0.9.1!

The following are the changes since version 0.9.0:

Processing

• The film area is revealed numerically instead of being SF, MF, or LF.
• A bug when shadow rolloff + highlight rolloff exceeded 1 has been fixed.
• When initiating cropping, the grab handles briefly flash, to help onboard new users.

Organize

• Images briefly flash when enqueued via double-clicking, to provide feedback.
• The date histogram scrollbar becomes transparent when hovered so that it doesn't cover up the dates completely.
• Max rating is now properly labeled.

General

• The queue now jumps to the active image when you switch images via left/right arrow keys.
• If a path to a raw file is given as a command-line argument, it will import and automatically load the image on startup.
• German translations are now available, courtesy Luemmel from discuss.pixls.us.
• Certain parts of the UI were widened to make room for the German translation.
• EXIF writing was enabled for TIFFs. This can be a bit glitchy sometimes though in terms of other programs opening the files, though.
• The icon was tweaked to match the name better.

Builds are available for Linux and Windows, but still no MacOS builds are available at this time. Please get in touch if you can help set up CI for MacOS builds.

Version 0.9.0

It's been a while, but here's Version 0.9.0!

UI tweaks

• The tabs look more like tabs than buttons. Inactive tabs have grayed-out text, and the active tab is outlined in orange.
• We now have icons, such as a proper reset icon, a warning icon in the case of erroneous input, and icons for background brightness, crop, and image rotation buttons. This replaces text, saving space in the UI.
• The Import tab itself now shows the progress bar while currently importing, so that you can view progress while working on other images.
• Scrolling has been made much more consistent-feeling, and all scrolling views now feature scrollbars.
• Keyboard shortcuts were added for switching tabs (ctrl/cmd-#), rating images (x, 0-5), switching between images in the queue (left/right), cropping (c), changing the editing background brightness (b), and saving a jpeg (ctrl/cmd-s).
• The calendar (which has been buggy) has been removed

Importing

• Time zones are now handled correctly on importing if the camera's time zone does not match the importing computer's time zone.
• Importing from a directory with multiple raw-containing subdirectories now works correctly.

Organize

• You can now filter by minimum and maximum rating.
• Rating also goes to -1 to signify images marked for forgetting.
• You can now enqueue all images currently listed in the organize view.

Queue

• You can now rate images with an X (-1) for forgetting.

Processing

• There is now a raw histogram, letting you easily evaluate how well you exposed all of your images.
• You can now iterate Auto CA correction for maximum correction.
• We now have Lensfun-based profiled lens corrections for chromatic aberration, vignetting, and distortion, with a slick UI that lets you set your preferences for every camera/lens combination.
• Highlight recovery now uses a faster, more robust algorithm.
• There's now a Shadow Rolloff Point tool that adds an effect like a film toe, making shadows more contrasty.
• You can now convert images to monochrome, with a channel mixer to get the look you want.

Features

• CR3 support (partial)

Plus many other performance improvements and bug fixes!

Builds are available for Linux and Windows, but while it can be compiled on MacOS no builds are available at this time. Please get in touch if you can help set up CI for MacOS builds.

If you already have downloaded the RC13 from the Nightly Builds Thread you don't need to update; these are the same files.

Also, visit us at the new website: https://filmulator.org

Version 0.7.0

This release dramatically improves the responsiveness of Filmulator to slider movements by making it render a small-size image before completing a full-size image.

The size of the preview can be configured in the Settings tab, and the functionality can be turned off if desired.

Version 0.6.3

This new update to Filmulator includes one major feature: cropping.

When an image has finished rendering, click the crop button to begin cropping. You can adjust the crop by dragging the handles just outside of the current crop, which will show up in blue for side handles and purple for corner handles.

Minor other changes:

• Error handling was added for the case where Filmulator cannot create a directory for the database, causing the program to exit instead of polluting your home directory.
• Metadata writing to TIFFs has been temporarily disabled; the thumbnail was appearing as a second layer and this confused GIMP when trying to import them.

Version 0.6.2

This release should fix a bug that occurs only on the first run of Filmulator, in which in the Filmulate tab, images cannot be successfully selected for editing.